Shaft-tug.



No. 660,273. Pamnfed oct". 25,1900,-

(. C. KLEIN.

SHAFT TUG.

' (Application led my 28, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT i OEEICE.

GEORGE C, KLEIN, OF AKRON, OHIO.

SHAFT-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660,273, dated OCtOlOel23. 1900 Application iled May 28, 1900. Serial No. 18,247. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE C. KLEIN, acitizen of the United States,residing at Akron, in the county of Su mlnit and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Thill-Loops, of Whichthe following is a specification;

My invention has relation to improvements in thill-loops for singleharness; and the object of myinvention is to produce a new and improvedloop that shall be neat and attractive in appearance and strong, durablein use, and peculiarly elastic.

To the aforesaid purpose my invention consists in the peculiar and novelconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafterdescribed and then specically pointed out in the claim, reference beinghad to the accompanying-drawings, forminga part of Y prepared forvulcanization and rubber-satucomposite ring is a strap-loop 7, also ofrubber, with a duck covering, built up and vulcanized With the otherparts. On the united ends of the different parts, at the top and bottom,are sheets 8 of rubber saturated duck, similarly applied and vulcanizedwith the other parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a thill-loop, having a lining offabric and a surrounding ring of rubber extending beyond its peripheralline at the top and bottom to form projections, of a buckle-bar andgirth-loop bar respectively inclosed by said projections, a series oflayers of fabric surrounding the outer line of said rubber ringexcepting the outer face of Asaid projection, and an inclosing case ofrubber terminating similarly with said layers of fabric, and caps ofrubber-saturated fabric to cover the outside of said projections and theends of said layers of fabric, the Whole arranged to be simultaneouslyunited by vulcanization.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' GEORGE C. KLEIN.

In presence of- JOSEPH DENGEL, C. P. I-IUMPHEEY.

